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The second employee, as soon as she arrived at 11
A.M., went through the house and finished any work
that was not completed by the first employee.
She worked without stopping until 3 P.M., then went
away for her lunch; she returned at 4 P.M. to relieve
the first employee whose work was over at four o’clock.
The second employee remained on duty until 8 P.M.;
she cooked and served dinner so quickly and efficiently
that the housewife who had always been accustomed to
have two employees, a “cook” and a “waitress,”
on duty for dinner every night, found to her great
surprise that one efficient household employee, working
on schedule time, accomplished in the same time the
work of two of her former “servants.”

SCHEDULE NO. VI

In this schedule the housewife wanted both her employees
to help her with her two children. With this
end in view, she made all the work of the house interchange
with the care of the children; in consequence when
one employee was off duty, the other could always be
relied on to help with the children. This proved
to be a very successful schedule, for it relieved
the mother from being obliged to sit in the nursery
as she was compelled to do every time her former “nurse”
went downstairs to her meals, or had her “afternoon
off.” But when the mother wished to be with
her children, and that was very often, the employee
who was in the nursery at the time, left the room
immediately to attend to other household duties.

Both employees were on duty at 7 A.M., a most necessary
arrangement where there are small children in a family.
The first employee prepared and served breakfast for
the family, while the other employee took full charge
of the children, giving them their breakfast in the
nursery, and taking them out afterwards for a walk.
At 10 A.M., she returned with the children, and she
was then off duty for two hours. The mother generally
chose this time to be with her children; if however,
she had any other engagement, the first employee was
on duty until noon and could be called upon to look
after them.

SCHEDULE NO. VII

There are many families who may object to all the
preceding schedules on account of the early hour in
the evening for household employees to be off duty.
When the housewife has never had her housework done
on schedule time by an efficient employee, she may
well think it impossible to have the dinner dishes
washed up and everything put away in order by 8 P.M.
However some families do not begin dinner before half
past seven, or eight o’clock, or even later,
but in these families, it is not unusual for the breakfast
hour to be very late also. In consequence nothing
is easier than to make a schedule for the day’s
work begin late and end late, without making any other
alteration in it.